Fire below Countywide? - Landfill official disputes report of possible underground blaze

By ZACH LINT
The Times-Reporter

PIKE TWP - Is there a fire burning beneath Countywide Recycling & Disposal Facility?

The Akron Beacon Journal reported Wednesday that a private citizen flying an airplane equipped with infrared cameras photographed the East Sparta landfill and found evidence of a fire burning and growing underneath a 30-acre tarp.

Mike Settles, an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency spokesman, would only confirm Wednesday that unusually high heat is being generated in a problem cell that was the source of odors in 2006....Read more.